Day: June 9, 2017

On Thursday night, the Cricket Advisory Committee met BCCI CEO Rahul Johri at a London hotel and deliberated on the issue for a bit more than two hours. Late in the night, they communicated their decision to the board: give us more time to think over the issue.

Mandsaur, the epicentre of farmers’ agitation in Madhya Pradesh, was peaceful on Friday but the violent protests reached the doorsteps of the capital Bhopal even as Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan announced an indefinite fast from Saturday for restoration of peace.

The Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (GJM) has convened an emergency meeting on Saturday, where the party’s central committee may recommend quitting the Gorkhaland Territorial Authority and going back to the old demand for a full-fledged Gorkhaland state.

She worked as a maid and washed dishes and cleaned houses along with her mother, and would snatch time from her busy schedule to study. And, when the UP board examination results came out on Friday, Manisha Kashyap was more than happy — for, she scored 74% in Class X.

May has been described as a “reluctant Indophile“, but she has made an effort to engage India and British Indians.A hard Brexit would have put Indians and Europeans on a level playing field as far as entry into the UK is concerned. In that case, Indians would have enjoyed an advantage since they are mostly skilled immigrants.

Theresa May has shown no inclination to resign and is trying to form a minority government with the help of Northern Ireland’s Democratic Unionist Party (DUP). Labour’s vote share rose 9.6% from its 2015 levels, while the Tories were up 5.5%. The Liberal Democrats, Greens and SNP saw small losses.

According to agency reports, the PM said that the two nations should respect one another’s “core concerns” and Xi said sensitive issues that impede bilateral ties should be addressed. Xi called for both sides to “properly address sensitive and major issues”, the Chinese foreign ministry said.

The Supreme Court upheld on Friday the law making the UID number a must for filing income tax returns and its linkage to PAN card. However, it clarified that “those assessees who are not Aadhaar card holders and do not comply with the provision of Section 139(2), their PAN cards be not treated as invalid for the time being”.